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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 21 May 2019

The movie is more or less all premise…

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By Kate Erbland (681) for IndieWire (3,631) on 21 May 2019

The film’s bent towards revisionist superhero history is certainly compelling, but stuck in the confines of the horror genre, it flames out…

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By Dominick Suzanne-Mayer (260) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 21 May 2019

It’s a nasty piece of work, and one that at the very least stands as an active interruption of the escapist, family-friendly superhero fare…

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By Frank Scheck (1,741) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 21 May 2019

While not exactly original, the premise is certainly effective enough…

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By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 21 May 2019

Throwing in some gnarly gore—and Brightburn indulges a couple of truly gruesome flinches—doesn’t change the plodding inevitability with…

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By Dennis Harvey (1,137) for Variety (12,700) on 21 May 2019

A watchable but super-silly mix of superheroics and evil-child horror that mashes together singularly uninspired ideas from both…

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By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 21 May 2019

The only creepy things about Brightburn, though, are its labored, derivative narrative, its giddy sadism (it gets off on Brandon’s adolescent…

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By Robert Abele (1,309) for TheWrap (3,203) on 21 May 2019

While we can perhaps be grateful that the superficiality of Brightburn probably kept it from opting to exploit elements of disturbed-kid narratives…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 21 May 2019

With Brightburn there’s not even the pretense of idealism. It’s a superhero movie with the soul of an ’80s slasher film…

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By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 May 2019

The way the film shuttles through its 90 minutes, it’s as if it’s been stripped of its most crucial narrative parts…

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